Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> As "git for-each-ref" takes pattern that is prefix match, e.g.,
>>
>> $ git for-each-ref refs/remotes/
>>
>> shows everything like refs/remotes/origin/main that begins with
>> refs/remotes/, I wonder if
>>
>> $ git for-each-ref ""
>>
>> should mean what you are asking for. After all, "git for-each-ref"
>> does *not* take "--branches" and others like "git log" family to
>> limit its operation to subhierarchy of "refs/" to begin with.
>
> But I don't think using an empty pattern is the best way to go forward.
> This would break the pattern matching feature. For instance, what if the
> user wanted to print all refs, but pattern match "*_HEAD"?
>
> Would that be
>
> $ git for-each-ref "" "*_HEAD"
Because you do not omit the leading hierarchy when using globs:
$ git for-each-ref v2.4\?.\* ;# nothing
$ git for-each-ref tags/v2.4\?.\* ;# nothing
$ git for-each-ref refs/tags/v2.4\?.\* ;# gives tags in v2.40 and onwards
I would expect that it would be more like
$ git for-each-ref "*_HEAD"
And because you can have two or more patterns, e.g.,
$ git for-each-ref refs/tags/v2.4\?.\* refs/heads/m\*
to get those recent tags and branches whose name begins with 'm', I
would expect your
$ git for-each-ref "" "*_HEAD"
would probably be equivalent to
$ git for-each-ref ""
